BY ART + TIMES: And the music goes on. After a miserable delay in the start of its Spring season, New York City Opera reached a 3 year deal with its singers and orchestra members, finally putting an end to a more than one week lock out.
Officials of both unions, the American Guild of Musical Artists and Local 802 of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, cautioned that the agreements still needed to be ratified by the unions' members. The votes will be finalized on Thursday at 4 p.m. But the tentative contracts were enough for City Opera to lift the lockout and begin rehearsals for the first show of the spring season Wednesday. The first opera, La Traviata, scheduled to begin a week-long run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Feb. 12, is expected to go on as planned.
